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How Al Qaeda men came to power in Libya

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 7 September 2011

Voltaire Network has received letters from many readers enquiring about Al-Qaeda in Libya. To respond to them, Thierry Meyssan has assembled the main data available on the issue. The facts confirm his analysis, defended since the events of September 11, that Al Qaeda is a hotbed of mercenaries (…)

Libyan rebel NTC threatens Algeria

6 September 2011

A spokesman for Libya’s NTC called Algeria’s refusal to recognize the NTC and their acceptance of Gaddafi’s close relatives "acts of aggression against the Libyan people".
Another sign of the nature of the Libyan rebel NTC is their unfounded arrogance against Algeria. After alleged atrocities (…)

Nicaragua refuses to recognize NTC, calls NATO drunken warmonger

5 September 2011

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega announced that his government does not recognize the Libyan rebels’ National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people and described NTC as "an instrument of intervention by NATO forces."
"We can not recognize it. There (…)

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The western project for the East: parliamentary systems under protectorate

by Wassim Raad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 5 September 2011

Reproducing the exact pattern of the 1920s, the International Conference in support of the new Libya aims to establish a parliamentary democracy façade, under the control of colonial powers, and with the approval of the UN, successor to the League of Nations (Paris, 1 September 2011). (…)

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Mahdi Nazemroaya back in Canada: telling the truth, exposing NATO war crimes

by Michel Chossudovsky

3 September 2011

The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) confirms that Global Research Correspondent Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya returned safely to Canada on Thursday, September 1st, 2011.
He was received at Montreal’s Pierre Trudeau International airport by members of his family, friends from Ottawa and (…)

Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi Speech on September 1, 2011

by Muammar al-Gaddafi

Tripoli (Libya) | 2 September 2011

Following rush translation of Libyan popular leader Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi’s speech on September 1st, 2011:
"In the name of Allah the Merciful, first of all I greet you for Eid Alfitr, Mubarak, and I read the Qur’an for the ones who are martyred, the ones who gave their blood for our land and (…)

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Libya: NATO Acquires Military Outpost In Third Continent

by Rick Rozoff

Chicago | 2 September 2011

Libya may be yet another country for NATO to take root in, suspects Rick Rozoff, who sees the repetition of an all-too-familiar modus operandi. First, NATO carpet bombs the whole country from top to bottom, then sets up military bases and finally doesn’t leave. In Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel is (…)

International Conference in Support of the New Libya Chairman’s Conclusions

Paris (France) | 1 September 2011

With the fall of Colonel Gaddafi certain, the participants paid tribute to the victims of the brutal repression by his regime. They expressed their admiration for the courage of the Libyan people, who have made great sacrifices in their struggle to put an end to decades of oppression and take (…)

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Tripoli: Ex-leader of fundamentalist Islamic group is new military commander of Tripoli

29 August 2011

The former chief of the terrorist Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Abdelhakim Belhadj, who led the "rebel" onslaught on Tripoli and on Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound, is now leader of the newly established Tripoli Military Council.
As reported last Thursday by the Algerian (…)

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Israel and the barrel of gunpowder

by Wassim Raad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 29 August 2011

While the Muslim Brotherhood were guarantors of the implementation of the Camp David Accord (1978), the Egyptian revolution puts into question the conditions for peace with Israel. Arab affairs
Editorial: Israel and the barrel of gunpowder As soon as the Eilat operation occurred, it (…)

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Voltaire Network journalists arrived safely in Malta

29 August 2011

Voltaire Network journalists arrived safely in Malta
Monday, 29 August 2011, 4 pm GMT - All the members of the Voltaire Network team arrived today at the port of Valletta, Malta.
Thierry Meyssan, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Mathieu Ozanon and Julien Teil are safe. British journalist Lizzie (…)

The Libyan Soldiers: The True Heroes of NATO’s War

by Glen Ford

New York (USA) | 27 August 2011

While NATO has proven its capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, it has failed to convey respectability to the marauding "rebels" under its wing, posing as freedom fighters. The latter, however, should not get too used to their spot in the limelight, which is sure to (…)

Rebels cleanse Tripoli’s Abu Slim area

26 August 2011

Overnight on Thursday 25 August, the rebels attacked the district of Abu Slim in Tripoli, hunting down loyal Gaddafi officials and their families.
France 24 TV correspondent Matthieu Mabin, reporting from Tripoli, provides a particularly chilling account:
"What happened had less to do with (…)

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Libya and beyond: How did we get there and what happens next?

by Dennis J. Kucinich

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 26 August 2011

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has been an outspoken critic of U.S. military action in Libya from the outset, even calling President Obama’s policy “an impeachable offense.” Now, as Muammar Gaddafi’s regime appears to be toppling, Kucinich is ramping up his criticism with the contention that NATO (…)

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Voltaire Network denounces attempt by the "rebels" to arrest Thierry Meyssan

by Voltaire Network

25 August 2011

Voltaire Network, Thursday, 25 August 25, 2011, 3:25 p.m. - The journalists who had been trapped inside the hotel Rixos in Tripoli since Sunday were evacuated yesterday, 24 August 2011, at 5 p.m, by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The four members of the Voltaire Network (…)

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